Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-07-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS,

AEcn1BOu mas secured 3 DOUg anu SHOE
mandatory that viii employ sixty-fve
men.
A hotel three stories high and with
frontage OF $50 feet is to be erected by
a Kansas City company at Peabody.
A fight bet two Phillips oounty
farmers, Enoch Hays and J. L. Schwen,
resulted in a damage suit, in which
Schwen asks for $1,000.
Two hundred thousand dollars of
school money now rests quietly In the
state treasury seeking investment at 5
per cent, and no bidders.
Manhattan Nationalist: II there has
been any law passed In the last eight
years which is more effective than another
that one is the municipal suffrage law.
Phillips County Freeman: The cleo
ton to sanction the selling Of the poor
farm for $4,000 was carried on quietly
and very light vote was cast, being
seventy three for and none against.
The Beattie stone qusEries furnish
constant employment for IS men. They
are turning out large quantities of rock
each day. The pay roll amounts to
about $4,000 per moath, nearly all OF
which Is left in the town Of BeRttie.
Jesse White, a lad living near Ameri-
Gus. met his death while digging q we'll.
He complained of being sick and asked
to be drawn up, but fell from the bucket
when about half way to the top, with
fatal result.
The Garden City Daily Sentinel now
appears with the full associated press re-
port. Five years ego Garden City had
800 population. Now it has 5000.
Verify, Kansas has no longer a "frOn-
tier"
Kansas Chief: About dark, last Fri
| day evening, a young man named VII
liam s. Myers, aged about % years, was
/ drowned IN the large pond at the deep
fill of the Rock Island road, in Cy.
Leland's field, Just southwest Of town.
Concordia Daylight: Some time ago a
fine mare belonging to a wealthy gentle
man Of this city broke one Of her legs.
| Their first intention we're to kill her, but,
she being pet In the family, had her leg
amputated, and, when the stump was
healed, fitted an artificial leg to the
mare, and she is being instructed IN its
use.
The Abilene Gazette Is authority for
the statement that Abilene has not had
a criminal prosecution in the courts for
over a year; that with 5000 inhabitants
there is not a druggist In the place that
sells liquor for any purpose, nor Is there
''dive' or Joint where liquor can be
obtained for love or money to be found
in the city.
Centralia Journal: There was some
thing ike a waterspOut, or the bottom
dropped out of a cloud, a few miles south
of here Monday, and the creek banks
were washed awey terribly, and the
ground was fairly flooded. Nothing like
it was ever seen in this vicinity before
The fall Of water only extended in a cir.
cUmference Of about two miles.
Phillips County Freeman: J. q. Allen
has the finest timber entry in Northwest
Kansas. He has sixteen acres Of timber
that will average 1000 trees to the acre
They are walnut, ash, box elder, wild
mulberry, blackberry, sycamore and ca,
talpa, and will average six feet in height
He was offered 81, 500 for the forty acres
containing the trees, but refused it. Il
is worth a mans time to go out and
took at it.
During a recent storm at Rock Greek
Cal, a flock of wild geese while IN the
air were struck by lightning, and six Of
them fell to the ground. A farmer
picked them up, and finding them plump
and fat plucked them and used them toI
food.
Girard Press: Alva Porter, a young
man twenty years Of age, from Green
county, No, WIS drowned in one Of the
coal pits I J miles northeast of Pittsburg,
Monday evening, at $50. He In com
pany with four other young men, were
in bathing, when, from some cause, POr,
ter was seen struggling in deep water
and unable to swim. Before his CON-
panions could rescue him he sank to the
bottom in fifteen feet Of water.
Sedan Graphic: A boy seven years
old belonging to two rowing women en-
tered Capt. Binns' store by the rear
door, a week or so ago, while the cap
tain and his clerks were sitting in front
of the building, and took $3.50 from
the safe, which was returned as soon as
the women discovered that he had the
money. Honesty crops out in great
many places where It Is least expected.
Parsons Sun: Joel Metcalf, farmer
living seven niles east Of this city, was
engaged Thursday afternoon hauling
hay to his barn. As he drove INTO his
barD-lOt LIE touched one OF the horses on
the back with hay fork. The horses
kicked and struck the end OF the handle
of the fork and driving It back toward
Metcalf With such force that one Of the
tines entered his neck, passing through
the Windpipe and inhiotnR a terrible
wound. The weight Of the fork drew
the tine out Of his neck as it fell OF o
the wagon, and Metcalf was immediately
carried into the house. The wound wa
dressed, but there Is but little hope o
his recovery.
Arkansas Valley Democrat: A few
years ago the railroad trains were leade,
with aid for Kansas sufferers. To-dG,
the east bound trains are loaded with fa
cattle, and on the same train are tn
Kansas sufferers with bills Of ladiag o.
, their pockets. Verify things hav
2 changed In Kansas In a few years. Their
? viii be as great 8 change IN Kansas i
: the next ten years as there has been i
p the past ten. Every year finds TIN
J. country greatly improved over the year
= previous, and soon this part Of Kanss
/ viii be looked to as the garden spot {
f the world.
2 Atchison Patriot: When the Sells CT
L Gus train was about fifteen miles frol
Kansas City, Wednesday night, a watct
man On the train heard a crash IN th
1 neighborhood Of the elephant car. 3
= I E,yTvv7a5 hack n the ear and dfaarvara